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"Bhante ! If the ailing monks do not receive suitable medicine, their suffering will increase. If they accept good medicine from me, their suffering will not increase, (rather it will diminish), and the chance of dying before time (on account of taking improper medicine) will be very much reduced.
"Bhante ! Keeping in view the ten merits, you have permitted the distribution of morning food to the blind. On a similar consideration, I want to supply morning food to the members of the holy order."
"Bhante ! Once it so happened that the nuns were obliged to take bath in the river Acirayati at the same bath. ing spot where harlots were taking bath. These fallen women said curtly to the nuns, 'You are so young. Why do you keep away from mem? At this age, you should enjoy life, and you will have enough time to practise celibacy in your old age. If you do this, you will do full justice to both parts of your life. "The nuns could give no suitable reply. Nudity among women is particularly hateful and mean. So I intend to supply udaka -sātikā to the nuns".
The Buddha - "Visakhā ! What special merit have you detected in these which you intend to acquire"?
Visakha - "Having completed their withdrawal during the monsoon months at various places in all di tions, monks will flock to Srāvasti to pay their homage and obeisance to thee when they will ask, 'Bhante ! Monk so and so is dead: What will happen to him? Is there a next life'? And at that time, in reply, those will explain at length the outcome of srotāpatti (i.e., to be firm on the roral to liberation), of sakydagāmi (i. e., one on the road to liberation who is busy exhausting fetters of sin), of arhat -hood, and so on. I shall enquire from the monk if ever the dead monk had come to Srāvasti or not. If I learn that the dead monk had visited this city during his life-time, I shall be able to check at once if he received a bathing suit from me, or incoming monk's diet or outgoing monk's diet, if he received a patient's food, or a nurse's food, or medicine or daily yavāgū. A remembrance like this will give joy to my mind, joy will give happiness and happiness will generate peace in the body. Phy
